British comedian Russell Brand has claimed he threw a photographer's iPhone through a window as "a tribute" to late Apple boss Steve Jobs.

The controversial comic is reported to have grabbed the phone while a photographer was using it to take pictures of him in New Orleans and threw it away, smashing the window of a nearby office.
Russell tweeted: "Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iphone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory."